Vehicle-seat brace.



Patented Sept. I6, I902.

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(Applhatiox; filed June 12, 1902.)

(No Model.)

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WITNESSES;

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE W. VINSON, OFHAZLEWOOD, KENTUCKY.-

VEHICLE-SEAT BRACE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NO. 709,378, dated September 16, 1902.

Application filed June 12,1902. Serial No. 111,380. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern-.-

I Be it known that I, GEORGE W. VINsoN, of I-Iazlewood, in the county of Ballard and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vehicle-Seat Braces, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved brace for supporting the seat and body of any vehicle to which it is adapted. In some types of vehicles, such as buggies and the like, the seat structure is commonly employed as the sole means for supporting the vehicle-top, and to such vehicles my invention is particularly directed. While my brace is adapted for use in many types of vehicles, it is more particularly designed to provide improved bracing for the seat and sides of a vehicle-body against strain exerted thereon in supporting a top as well as afford improved and more rigid bracing for the whole seat structure.

My invention consists in the improved brace-iron and combination of parts, all as will be hereinafter fully described, reference being bad to the accom panying drawings, and theletters of reference thereon, as forming a part of this specification.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a central vertical longitudinal sectional view through the vehicle body and seat. Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section on line 00 wot Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a perspective view showing one of the bracedrons.

In carrying out my invention I employ two peculiar brace-irons AA, of substantially the same formation,which may be cast or stamped from sheet metal. My brace-irons are angular in cross-section and consistof a vertical flange B, projecting at O, a horizontal flange D, and a web E, integral with the flanges B and 0, having its lower end bent horizontally short of the lower end of the vertical flange B, forming a foot F, as shown. As affording means for attachment the braces are provided with suitable bolt-holes, as indicated. In the drawings I have shown my braces under the rear of the seat with common or well-known 'is being made.

means forming the front support; but obviously the latter, the common means, may be dispensed with and my brace-irons used both front and rear, if desired; but the use thereof at the rear of the seat will, I think, afford suflicient bracing for the whole seat structure in light bodies, such as are employed in vehicles of the buggy type.

While my braces may be arranged under the seat of a finished vehicle, they can be more effectively employed while the vehicle-body \Vith braces constructed as above described and shown by my drawings the flange projection C should be sunk into the side edges of the bottom of the vehicle and secured by a horizontally-projected screw.

Each brace rests upon its foot F, and the latter is secured to the bottom board by a vertical boit. The braces A A may, if desired, be connected at their upper ends by a board G. The seat H and the board G, as also the side boards of the vehicle-body, are bolted to the braces, as shown.

Now it is apparent that with my peculiar seat-bracing the whole seat structure is provided with such rigid support as will more effectively withstand strain and at the same time afford means whereby the seat, side boards, and bottom of the vehicle may be socurely connected together.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by .Letters Patent, is

Witnesses GEO. TANNER, CHAS. BIRNEY. 

